Definition of crack

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Crack (n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass..

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Pearlstone :: Pearlstone (n.) A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic..
Grit :: Grit (n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats..
Crepitation :: Crepitation (n.) The act of crepitating or crackling.
Crackling :: Crackling (n.) Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting..
Batten :: Batten (n .) A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc..
Crackle :: Crackle (n.) The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely..
Check :: Check (v. t.) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber..
Cracker :: Cracker (n.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Crackling :: Crackling (n.) The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated..
Half-cracked :: Half-cracked (a.) Half-demented; half-witted.
Wit-snapper :: Wit-snapper (n.) One who affects repartee; a wit-cracker.
Fother :: Fother (v. t.) To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack..
Crack :: Crack (v. t.) To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip..
Cleave :: Cleave (v. i.) To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost..
Chap :: Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin..
Cracker :: Cracker (n.) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
Seam :: Seam (v. i.) To become ridgy; to crack open.
Grease :: Grease (n.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences..
Cry :: Cry (v. i.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.
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